Fashion, Beauty and Luxury Goods
- Our focus is on understanding the intricacies of how today's decisions impact the future of your brand. We take a customized approach to helping you achieve your goals with a broad vision in mind, thoughtfully advising clients each step of the way.
- Holland & Knight's Fashion, Beauty and Luxury Goods Team represents some of the most well-known brands, investors, businesses, celebrity ambassadors and talent in the category, including design houses, agents, celebrities, influencers, luxury retailers and high-end product manufacturers.
- Our attorneys counsel clients in every facet of their business, including brand strategies, complex financing, talent representation, intellectual property and brand protections, regulatory compliance and more.
Overview
Bespoke Representation
From business transactions to intellectual property protection and enforcement to investment strategies and portfolio management, we understand the unique challenges of the fashion market.
The attorneys on Holland & Knight's Fashion, Beauty and Luxury Goods Team take a holistic approach to providing practical legal advice to the sector. We function as brand consultants, providing valuable insight into every facet of your business as well as at each stage of the business life cycle.
Our deep experience, vast connections, industry knowledge and proprietary platform enable us to deliver full-service representation tailored to the specific goals, life stage and category of your business. This experience was recognized by The Fashion Law in its 2025 list of Top U.S. Law Firms for Retail Companies.
Top Brands, Top Counsel
Our lawyers represent top luxury brands and other beauty and fashion clients of all sizes and life stages, including couture houses, jewelry retailers, luxury clothing retailers and designers, talent agents and brand executives.
We have considerable experience and connections in every segment of the industry. Our approach is always forward-looking, leveraging the latest innovations to create opportunities for our clients and prepare them for potential, unseen risks.
Money Matters
Holland & Knight's Fashion, Beauty and Luxury Goods Team has been instrumental in helping raise capital for a wide variety of fashion and luxury goods clients, including entertainment, event promotion and e-commerce companies. Our attorneys structure and negotiate deals throughout the business life cycle, from initial capital raises to multimillion-dollar transactions and everything in between.
We understand our clients' financial goals and support clients with in-depth knowledge and experience in the following areas:
- monetary support
- startup and venture capital raises
- private equity and growth capital investments
- minority investments and transactions with multiple equity sponsors
- debt financings, including asset-based financings and mezzanine lending
- mergers and acquisitions
- carve-out and spinoff transactions
- leveraged buyouts
- acquisitions from bankruptcy or other distressed transactions
- cross-border acquisitions
- initial public offerings
- joint ventures
The Holland & Knight Advantage
The firm's global footprint and collaborative approach give you access to a full range of legal advice for your business. We work in tandem with teams across the globe to help ensure that every aspect of your business is covered. By extension, Holland & Knight's Fashion, Beauty and Luxury Goods Team includes extensive experience in handling cross-border issues, regulatory and compliance matters, and supply chain, labor and environmental impact issues, among others.
